Highly Specialised Physiologist

Job overview

The Lancashire Cardiac Centre is a tertiary cardiac provider for the people of Lancashire & Cumbria. The centre has well-established invasive and non-invasive services covering a wide range of diagnostic and treatment including.

Cardiac intervention, Structural cardiac procedures including TAVI, Device implantation including ICD’s and CRT’s & Extraction, Electrophysiology & mapping procedures.

We are looking to recruit experienced cardiac sonographers in the Cardiac Investigations Unit. The successful candidates will work as part of a highly skilled team of sonographers alongside the Imaging consultants to deliver the busy service.

The specialised team perform over 13,000 TTE’s 650 Dobutamine & Exercise Stress Echocardiography each year as well as the advanced techniques within Cardiac Ultrasound such as, Transesophageal echo (TOE), 3D TTE/TOE & Contrast Echocardiography. As part of our tertiary centre work, we also provide Paediatric and Adult Congenital Echocardiography in partnership with Liverpool and Alder Hey.

You should be BSE accredited, possess BSc in clinical physiology or equivalent and be on the AHCS register.

Main duties of the job

As a Highly Specialist Cardiac Physiologist the post holder will be required to work as an autonomous, competent practitioner of echocardiography based at the Cardiac Investigations Unit and working across our community diagnostic centres.

Providing a highly specialised clinical and technical service in echocardiography that impacts directly upon the clinical management of the patient. This will be underpinned by highly developed specialist knowledge gained by postgraduate training and completion of a relevant qualifications.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To perform routine and specialist, complex investigations such as transoesophageal echo, stress echo, 3D echo, contrast studies and inter-procedural TOE, interpreting the results and producing a clinical report by applying advanced theoretical knowledge.
• To review Echo studies and reports performed by others and provide highly specialised advice on interpretation and reporting.
• To provide specialist advice to clinicians regarding procedure results to enable development of individual care plans as appropriate.
• To undertake complex troubleshooting and maintenance of imaging equipment and any other equipment within the department.
• Perform and interpret a variety of non-invasive cardiology procedures such as ECG and blood pressure monitoring as may be required during various imaging procedures.
• Interpret a variety of invasive cardiology procedures such as left and right angiography for use in performing stress echocardiography.
• To participate and actively support research and development activities and clinical trials within the department.
• To provide input to the departmental databases for audit and analysis of procedures and results and ensure that these are updated by all users.
• Collaborate and actively assist the echo service manager when creating business plans for improvement and development of new services in echocardiography.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.